Am I An Unhappy Person?

Do you feel like you're not as good as others?

Do you often feel helpless, hopeless, pessimistic, depressed, anxious, and/or chronically worried?

Are you always trying to fit in and belong but rarely feel like you do?

Do you find yourself striving in vain for an impossible-to-achieve standard of perfection?

Do you experience several vague, hard-to-treat physical symptoms (e.g., fatigue, chronic pain, weight gain or loss, insomnia)?

Do you feel like you're not appreciated enough?

Do you feel like your daily life is meaningless and task-driven?

Do you feel beaten down by the challenges you face in your life?

Are you frequently worried that you're not good enough, smart enough, [fill in the blank] enough?

Do you often feel you don't really matter, and your love doesn't make a difference?

Do you find yourself judging others?

Do you frequently numb yourself with things like alcohol, drugs, excessive busyness, and do you feel disappointed with life?

Based on your answers, you don’t seem an unhappy person. That is good news! These days, many people suffer from a loss of identity, meaning and genuine connection. Some of us experience a deep unhappiness and over time it becomes easier to feel numb to signs and consider unhappiness as simply ordinary. Unhappiness blinds us from seeing joy in ordinary life. Being in a state of happiness is a choice which has many long-term benefits for our mental health. It’s normal to not feel happy every single day but staying generally positive is important and will make our lives better and more satisfying.

Based on your answers, you are displaying various signs of an unhappy person. Choosing happiness and joy over unhappiness is a choice. This choice has many long-term benefits for our mental health. If you find yourself being unhappy and negative most of the time, rather than joyful and positive, it may be important to engage in activities such as meditation, journaling, mindfulness and prayer to find happiness. Sometimes, you may need to make some external changes in your life. In other cases, it may just take seeing the life you are living in a different perspective. If you feel you need some help, you can always reach out to your doctor to find the right solutions.

Unfortunately, you are displaying the signs typically seen among individuals who are unhappy. Sometimes, you may need to make some external changes in your life. This can be a career switch or taking care of an unhealthy relationship by going to therapy or even ending things. Perhaps you need to connect with more people to love, or maybe you need to engage in more creative activities. Meditation and breathing exercises can help you reconnect to your soul and find happiness in the here and now. You will discover that you have had everything you needed and probably have been looking in all the wrong places. Sometimes you just need to see the life you are living in a different perspective.